Re: Forms security: Not displaying input means it is protected? --zivi-muh

Ah that would explain it, I did scan your email over 3 times to be sure I wasn't misunderstanding!

I haven't used the security component in this way yet so I am afraid I can't be of any further help

I will use this component soon however, thanks for reminding me of its existence :)

Kind Regards

 Stephen

On 26 November 2010 12:09, Joshua Muheim <psybear83@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the hint to the $whitelist, Stephen. But this seems not
necessary to me anymore when using the Security component (which I do
and I forgot to mention in my first post). Look at this
(http://book.cakephp.org/view/175/Security-Component):

"When using the Security Component you must use the FormHelper to
create your forms. The Security Component looks for certain indicators
that are created and managed by the FormHelper (especially those
created in create() and end()). Dynamically altering the fields that
are submitted in a POST request (e.g. disabling, deleting or creating
new fields via JavaScript) is likely to trigger a black-holing of the
request. See the $validatePost or $disabledFields configuration
parameters."

So if you're using Security component, the end user can't mess with
the POST data anymore. :-)

Any other comment about this, anyone?

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Stephen
<stephen@ninjacodermonkey.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi There
>
> You should use a whitelist to specify the fields to save, any other fields
> will not be saved.
>
> Even if you don't display the field on the page, a user can still create the
> post variable from within their browser and use it to change data they
> shouldn't really be allowed to.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Stephen
>
> On 26 November 2010 10:38, psybear83 <psybear83@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey everybody
>>
>> In my application, users can edit their email, phone number etc., but
>> they are *not* allowed to edit their username - only admins are
>> allowed to do that.
>>
>> So I'm wondering: is it safe to simply not display the username field
>> to the user? Afaik CakePHP makes sure that the form hasn't been
>> manually edited (e.g. adding a username input field), right? So I
>> don't have to double-check on the application's side, e.g. by
>> unsetting the $data[User][username] field, as long as I'm only
>> displaying form fields using CakePHP's form helper (and not
>> "deactivating" them by just hiding them using CSS or so), right?
>>
>> If so - yeah, sweet! Thanks, CakePHP! :-)
>>
>> Waiting for your confirmation about this fact, guys... Thanks!
>>
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